“The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.” – John Allston.*

“Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway.*

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean.*

“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.*

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats.*

“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” – Howard Newton.*

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt.*

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” – The Dalai Lama.*

“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.” – Henri de Lubac.*

“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry ‘thus far and no further'” – Ludwig van Beethoven.*

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.” – Thomas J. Watson.*

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli.*

“If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.” – Bill Cosby.*

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brink.*

“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” – Pablo Picasso.*

“Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey.” – Chinese Fortune Cookie.*

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – J Pierpoint Morgan.*

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – Henry Ford.*

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” – Albert Einstein

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” – Albert Einstein

“To wait for a leader to guide us into the future is to be forever disillusioned” – Charles Handy*

References

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